Hollywood movies and allegories (Avengers spoilers possible)

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  1. Wildjoker5

    Wildjoker5 Well-Known Member

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    So, why is it that Hollywood is so liberal, so leftist, but keeps putting out allegories that show their ideologies are so destructive and so rejected by the "heroes" of just about every movie that is made. For those who've seen Avengers: IW, you saw how Thanos wants everyone to have more stuff, and with the power of infinity, he uses it to kill half of everything instead of creating more. Thinking his way is the only way, his genocide comes to fruition. This is essentially on parallel with the socialism ideology of how things need to be "fair" the recourses should be forcibly redistributed. He removes all individual interaction and thinks it either his way or the high way.

    This can also be seen in Captain America: Civil War with hydra being the thought police and planning to kill anyone that might come up with any speech that they see as violence, which is a nice corner stone for SJWs now who try to silence anyone who hurt their feelings. The Majority of antagonists are collectivists who want to remove the individual thoughts and rights and life because they think they know how to run everyone's life better than the individual. And yet we keep seeing this crap where the real world leftist, like those in Hollywood keep calling for collectivists like Hillary to be elected.

    I wont go into spoilers for End Game now, but someone might so be warned reading.
     
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    The problem is that is rarely an actual solution.

    To see this in action, look at the Third World, or even California.

    Most people know that resources are finite. There is only so much of anything to go around, and you can not always just "manufacture your way to prosperity". Yes, if the world needs thingamabobs you can make more thingamabobs. But you can not just make land, or water, or electricity in the same way.

    This can be seen spectacularly in California. That state over the last 50 years has gone from an exporter of electricity and a destination to move to for housing and employment to a large importer of almost every resource, and one of the most expensive places to live. Places like LA were where even the middle class could once buy a house, and everybody once seemed to have 2 cars. ANd a 20 minute commute was considered "long".

    But in the last 50 years, the population of that state has over doubled. It was just over 15 million when I was born there. Today, it is almost 40 million. Every day we hear the politicians panicking about things like the lack of water, the lack of power, the lack of affordable housing, the overcrowding of highways, the increasing pollution, and a lot of other problems. But they fail to grasp that the actual problem is that there are simply to many people shoved into to small of a space.

    Historically, our population was kept in check primarily through disease. Every generation or so some scourge would sweep through and reset the number of people to keep that from happening. And to a lesser extent, war did the same thing. But today we breed at an almost out of control rate, and more and more flock to places where the resources are already over taxed.

    However, I do find it ironic that most of the problems of places like Los Angeles and San Francisco would be solved by simply wiping out half the population at the snap of the fingers. The "drought" would instantly vanish, housing and traffic would fall to 1960 levels, an there would suddenly be a huge demand for employees so incomes would rise (that is what revolutionized Europe after the Black Death wiped out almost half the people).
     
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